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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Cleon I, Chapters 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is a native of the Dahl Sector of Trantor and a brilliant self-taught mathematician languishing as a heatsink worker when Hari Seldon encounters him in Prelude to Foundation?
(a) Eto Demerzel.
(b) Jo-Jo Joranum's.
(c) Hari Seldon.
(d) Yugo Amaryl.

2. What is a fictional science in the Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people?
(a) Psychohistory.
(b) Sociomathematics.
(c) Sociogeometry.
(d) Histomathematics.

3. At what age did Hari Seldon travel to the center of the Galactic Universe to deliver a theoretical paper on psychohistory?
(a) 37.
(b) 24.
(c) 32.
(d) 17.

4. What does Eto Demerzel tell Hari to call him in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?
(a) Roteen.
(b) Daneel.
(c) Lingon.
(d) Binbane.

5. Who recognizes Yugo's story and agrees to pass along a coded message to Joranum in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 16?
(a) Guardsman Sander Nee.
(b) Cpl. Quinber.
(c) Gen. Dugal Tennar.
(d) Dr. Cinda Monay.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 16, Raych sits in a cell listening to whose rote lecture about civil order?

2. What is the sector of the planet Trantor that for centuries provides servants to and rivals for power with the Entun Dynasty?

3. In what year did Cleon I succeed to the Imperial Throne?

4. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 9, Cleon is unaware of the requirement that gardeners be recruited from where?

5. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 21, Dors worries that Joranum could soon seize power, but who predicts that his movement will collapse?

(see the answer key)

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